I live and work on the traditional lands of the Menang Noongar people and pay my respects to Elders past, present and future. Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

The flood of leaked documents from IHMS and Broadspectrum continues. It is incredible that Minister Dutton and Department Chief Pezzullo are still in employment. Eventually, the legal system will catch up with them. But it is more important that the voices in detention are heard. This is the first part of an article written by MD Imran, a young man on Manus Island.

Somewhere in our hearts we had a hope that we would be moved to safety by the end of October this year when this prison Manus RPC Concentration Camp would be closed down, however these hopes were dashed when another devastating announcement was made on 15th May on a Monday afternoon by PNG immigration, which has ruined the lives of refugees and asylum seekers once again.According to the announcement, PNG, with Australia’s support, will close the centre on 31 October 2017. There are many key messages.Foxtrot compound will be the first compound to close, starting with N block on 28th May but by the 30th of June the whole Foxtrot compound will be evacuated and the area will be locked. No one will be permitted to enter and electricity will be turned off from each compound.

Dear Prime Minister

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On July 30 2016 I started writing letters to the Prime Minister of Australia protesting Australia's indefinite detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru. There are more than 1500 asylum seekers trapped in offshore detention since 2013. These are transcripts of those letters. I am still waiting for a response from Mr Turnbull.

The Confined Hearts Project: Penny Ryan's project involves making and showing 1468 small terracotta human hearts, one for each person currently detained on Nauru and Manus Island as part of Australia’s policies on people seeking asylum.

Voices from detention

The Messenger is based on thousands of voice messages sent by Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a refugee currently detained on the Australian-run detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, to Michael Green, a journalist based in Melbourne.

Behind the Wires is an oral history project documenting the stories of the men, women and children who have been detained by the Australian government after seeking asylum in Australia.